Beneath the vast night sky, the bright moon hung overhead, seemingly unchanged since time immemorial, casting its calm, gentle radiance over the churning, surging sea.
Towering waves all but reached the stars and moon as the battle between the Majestic Attire: Susanoo Wood Golem and Yamata no Orochi turned Osaka Bay upside down.
Wielding a forty-meter purple greatsword, the colossal god strode through the waves and slashed down at Yamata no Orochi.
One stroke to slay a dragon!
Boom!
As though a mythical miracle of parting the sea had been reenacted, an enormous, perfectly straight chasm split the ocean in two, stretching for who knew how many hundreds of miles, all the way to the horizon.
"So this is the power called Susanoo..."
"As expected of the god of the sea and destruction in the Kojiki!"
Witnessing this ultimate violence firsthand through satellite images, dignitaries around the world felt their blood surge and boil.
"Keh heh heh, what a shame. You were so close."
Ashiya Doman tilted his head to look at the Susanoo sword that had missed him by a hair, baring his teeth in a grotesque grin as the dark purple bell hanging from his hair jingled.
Yamata no Orochi's body had come within a hair of being severed in two. All its necks had been cut through, but instead of blood, ominous, sinister black vapor flowed from the wounds.
"Damn it! If those snake heads hadn't blocked it, that strike would have cut Ashiya Doman to pieces."
Standing atop the Majestic Attire: Susanoo Wood Golem, Uchiha Senmon gritted his teeth, his face dark.
He urged the Majestic Attire: Susanoo Wood Golem to pull out the greatsword, but torrents of black vapor gushed from the two barely connected halves of Yamata no Orochi's body, drawing them together and